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Jane Comfort (born 15 Oct 1945) of Oak Ridge, Tennesee is an American choreographer, director, and dancer. She is the founder and artistic director of Jane Comfort and Company based in New York, NY.

Biography

Jane Comfort earned a B.A. in Painting from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill before finding her way to movement and dance. She moved to New York in 1970 and began to study with Merce Cunningham and later went to perform with Jamie Cunningham. She formed her own company in 1978 and since then has collaborated with several visual artists, composers, and dancers to create dance and theater work that integrates text and movement. Her work has been produced in Europe, South America, as well as all over the United States. Comfort has never shied from relevant social issues and her work gives voice to those afflicted by these issues: women, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, and the abused.

Choreography

Jane Comfort has choreographed for the modern dance stage to the opera house to television set.

Jane Comfort and Company

• Steady Shift (1978)
• Sign Story (1979)
• Eatless Textures (1981)
• Incorrect Translations (1982)
• Artificial Horizon (1983)
• TV Love (1985)
• Cliffs Notes: McBeth (1986)
• Portrait (1989)
• Deportment: South (1990)
• Deportment: North (1991)
• Faith Healing (1993)
• S/He (1995)
• Three Bagatelles for the Righteous (1996)
• Passion (1994)
• Underground River (1998) Bessie Award
• Asphalt (2001)
• Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM (2006)
• An American Rendition (2008)

Awards

• New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award) 1998
  

Collaborators

Comfort has worked with several artists to produce multidisciplinary dance theater works throughout her career. Her past collaborators include Tigger Benford, Arthur Elgort, Carl Hancock Rux, Joan La Barbara, Steve Miller, Toshi Reagon, Keith Sonnier, DJ Spooky, and puppeteer Basil Twist.

References

• Berg, Peggy International Dictionary of Modern Dance. St. James Press, 1998. ISBN 978-15-5862-359-0
• Smith, Amanda (July 1999). "Sassy, Intelligent, Provocative, and Funny" Dance Magazine.

External Liks

Jane Comfort and Company